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My first inclination was to post this in "Networking," because it's e-mail related, but, since it's not even really computer related, I guess it belongs here. (Your judgement, Mods.)
Long header's from an e-mail I received on 11-28-09 that I had already received on 11-23-08 (The omissions are both obvious and immaterial to my question.):
From:
Subject:
Date: November 23, 2008 7:31:44 PM EST
To: artie505@
Received: from sff1 ([70.17.24.238]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KTU00CBAN3JCCA5@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for artie505@; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:24 -0600 (CST)
Message-Id: <D734D1304DEA463F937074A346CA0DB4@sff1>
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C94DA2.1E943580"
X-Priority: 3
X-Msmail-Priority: Normal
Is there anything in there that gives anybody a clue as to where this e-mail has been lurking for the past year and why it came around a second time?
This is a brand new one on me; has anybody else experienced it or similar?
Last edited by cyn; 12/03/09 03:21 PM. Reason: Topic moved from the Lounge to the Networking forum.
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It might be possible to tell a bit more if you posted the "Raw Source" instead of just Long Headers. (In Mail: View > Message > Raw Source)
Lacking that I can only speculate, but I have seen something similar happen when a server was reloaded after a crash and in the process lost track of what had and had not been forwarded/retrieved and therefore resent everything.
By the way, I would have put this in Networking myself.
Last edited by joemikeb; 12/03/09 04:15 AM. Reason: add by the way
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
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> It might be possible to tell a bit more if you posted the "Raw Source" instead of just Long Headers. (In Mail: View > Message > Raw Source)
I was unaware of "Raw Source;" thanks for directing me to it:
Received: from sff1 ([70.17.24.238]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net
(Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit))
with ESMTPA id <0KTU00CBAN3JCCA5@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for
artie505@; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:24 -0600 (CST)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:31:44 -0500
From:
Subject:
To: <artie505@>
Message-id: <D734D1304DEA463F937074A346CA0DB4@sff1>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512
Content-type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C94DA2.1E943580"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-priority: Normal
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C94DA2.1E943580
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0002_01C94DA2.1E943580"
------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C94DA2.1E943580
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Here's the first. I'm also sending them to me at work and
will print there and mail them to you.
------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C94DA2.1E943580
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Here's the first. I'm also =
sending them to me=20
at work and</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>will print there and mail them to =
you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
------=_NextPart_001_0002_01C94DA2.1E943580--
------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C94DA2.1E943580
Content-Type: image/jpeg;
name="index_001.jpg"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="index_001.jpg" (Raw source of jpeg omitted)
Does that offer any clues?
Thanks.
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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Now that is bizarre. This part:
Received: from sff1 ([70.17.24.238]) by vms173019.mailsrvcs.net
(Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit))
with ESMTPA id <0KTU00CBAN3JCCA5@vms173019.mailsrvcs.net> for
artie505@; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:33:24 -0600 (CST)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:31:44 -0500
suggests that the email has been sitting for a year on vms173019.mailsrvcs.net or that the Date: header is incorrect. Did this email come from someone you know?
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I wonder if the sender (accidentally) sent it twice last year... and that server held back the second copy. Still strange... but perhaps not as strange. 
>>> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008Sunday is the right *day* there, so... it doesn't seem to be a mere matter of the 9 getting decremented somehow.
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Responding to tacit and Hal in the same post: > Did this email come from someone you know?> I wonder if the sender (accidentally) sent it twice last year... [....]The e-mail came from my sister, and the year disparity in the dates is correct; the subject matter is so specific that there's absolutely zero chance of my memory of having received it last year being off-base. I asked her about the possibility of her having sent it twice, and, understandably, she can't give me a guaranteed answer. 'Tis truly a puzzlement. 
The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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